...Barbara Samuel Loftus; Patricia W. Meyers Examines potential industrial buyers of a product based on emerging technology, PACS (picture archiving and communication system), a new image management system which stores and retrieves digitized radiology images. Using multiple case sites of buyers...

... appears ever more dependent on the quality and effectiveness of the supply network. This transformation modifies the traditional adversarial model of the buyer‐supplier relationship and fosters the reconfiguration and integrated management of the supply chain. At the same time, competitive dynamics...